Saving seeds of resilience part 1
Kim Stoddart explains how to save some of your own seed both now and thinking ahead for the following year
Whilst I am as keen a peruser of gardening seed catalogues as the next person, there is something so very satisfying about home seed saving that money simply cannot buy. The process of sowing a seed, to growing a plant, collecting the seed to be planted the following season provides a full circle connection that is simple yet wholesome in this increasingly worrying planet of ours. It is also many believe a good way of creating seed that has become more adapted to the growing conditions in which it was formed; namely your smallholding. So when it comes to building resilience - it’s probably one of the finest things you can do.
There’s nothing new about seed saving. It used to be a firm part of the gardening calendar in fact before we all got so used to buying things in. Of course realistically to save all your own seed would be incredibly time-consuming and stressful (believe me I’v…
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